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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. RILEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FASTENING FOR DOG-COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,785, dated May 15, 1883.

i Application filed January 15, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN M. RILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastenings for Dog- Collars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom: panying drawings, forming a part of the same, in Wl1lOl1- Figure 1 is a plan view, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 details of my improvement.

My invention has relation to fastenings for dog-collars, and is designed as an improvement on Letters Patent granted to me July 12, 1882, and numbered 244,312. I

In my aforesaid Letters Patent I have described a fastening consisting of two pivoted blocks set upon a plate attached to one end of the collar, which pass through two slots in a plate attached to the other end of the collar, and are turned around into contact and secured in position by a padlock, whose hasp passes through vholes in both said blocks.

My present invention consists in a single pivoted block and a stationary standard set upon a curved plate atone end of the collar, which pass through T-shaped slots in a simi lar plate on the other end of the collar, the pivoted block being turned around into contact with the standard after passing through the slots, and secured in position by a padlock or other suitable fastening.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A A are the two ends of a dog-collar. To the end A of the collar is attached a curved plate, B. Near the outer end of plate B is pivotally attached a block, a, whose outer end is provided with an opening for thepassage of a padloek-hasp or other suitable fastening device. A stationary standard, b, is attached to the plate back of and in line with the pivoted block a, the standard I) being at such distance from the block that the opening in the latter will register with a corresponding opening in the standard; The standard 11 is approximately oblong in cross-section, and is cut away slightly on the side that receives the end of the pivoted block. To the opposite end of the collar is' attached a second' plate, B, whose curvature corresponds with that of the plate B. This second plate has a series of slots, 0 c 0, at regular interv'als,which have one end enlarged, so as to form eyes (2 d d, 'correspondin g in shape to that of the standard b.

The operation of my invention is as follows: To fasten the ends of the collar together, the plates B B are placed one on top of the other, the block a passing through one of the slots in the plate B, and the standard I) through the eye of the next succeeding slot. The block a is then turned around until its end meets the standard b. This will fasten the two plates together with sufficient security; but, it desired, they may be further secured by passing the hasp of a padlock through the openings in the end of the block and the standard.

I claim 7 The combination of plate B, pivoted block a, and standard 0, with the plate B, having slots 0 c and eyes (I d, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, this 9th day of January, A. D1883, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOHN M. RILEY. Witnesses:

J. F. KITGHELL, J. K. OSBORN. 

